???: “He-, ey-, H-y, HEY!!!!!! Wake up!!!!!”
Me: “What, who?”
???: “Ah finally, to think it would take that long to wake you up..”
I sat up and gazed around me, I couldn't see anything around me, I was surrounded in pitch black darkness. I looked around trying to identify the direction of the voice, but failed to do so.
???: “Stop turning your head in circles like an idiot! Turn 20 degrees to the the left and walk 7 paces in front of you and feel around.”
I stopped turning my head to the direction of the voice and followed its directions.
???: “That’s right….keep going… Thats right. stop. Now reach out and -”
As I reached out my hand lightly brushed against something. It was cold and flat in and smooth almost glass like.
???: “Finally, your soo slow..”
The darkness in front of me started to brighten up, and the room’s walls started to glow. I jumped back in fright.
Aleam: “What’s going on?”
When I looked up I could see that the room had high ceilings over 20 meters in height.There were angelic and demonic runes near the top bordering the perimeter of the room. Demonic statues of different clans lined the walls of the room. In front of me was a giant crystal, but inside the crystal was a man.
He was a tall almost double my height. His hair was up to his shoulders, it looked quite unique at that, with stands of golden blond hair mixed in with pitch black strands contrasting against one another. He was wearing simple white clothing, no shoes or accessories. He had an ovaline face with mid arched eyebrows and a subnasal.
???: “Finally, you take forever to wake up.”
I looked around the room and noticed that the room I was in was different from the rest of the tomb. Unlike the previous floor, the room felt more demonic and Ancient? The room itself was simple enough. Unlike the marquis mansion with all the gaudy gold and gems; the room I was in was much more simple. However, somehow it felt much more magnificent. The crystal at the center of the room was giving off some sort of power.
Aleam: “Where am I?”
??? : “Your at the bottom of the abyss. The very bottom, although I wonder who in the world you would be able to enter this sealed room.”
Aleam: “I’m at the very bottom? Wait forget that who are you?
???: “Finally someone’s asking smart questions. You’ve been lying there unconscious for the last couple of hours and when you come to all you do is stare around the wide eyed like some sort of child who’s lost his mommy.”
Aleam: “Actually I did.”
???: “How old are you?”
Aleam: “12”
???: “Does that not mean you CAN’T ACT A LITTLE MORE MATURE, MAYBE SOMEONE WHO DOESN’T NEED THEIR MOMMY FOR EVERYTHING”
Aleam: “.... Sorry”
???: “And while we’re on the topic of maturity a person would usually introduce themselves first before even thinking of asking for a persons name. Where were you raise an animal barn, the jungle?”
Aleam: “I’m sorry, my name is Aleam Arch Diabolous may I kindly ask who you are?”
???: “hmm, somewhat acceptable but you need work. My name is Lucifer, Lucifer Ortus Coeles.”
Aleam: “Then Sir Ortus Coeles-”
Lucifer: “Just call me Lucifer”
Aleam: “Then Sir Lucifer,where am I and how did I get here?”
Lucifer: “Well kid as you probably know your in the abyssal crypt one of the dungeons made by God to hold the first fallen. This is the final room of the dungeon the Prison room.-”
Aleam: “Wait wait wait wait the last room doesn’t that mean that the room is guarded by some strong monster or something.”
Lucifer: “YOU DO NOT INTERRUPT SOMEONE WHEN THEY’RE TALKING!!!.”
Lucifer’s voice resounded and kept ringing in my head like my head was inside a large bell. I put both hands to the side of my head to try and stop the verbrations.
Not helping much I looked up to the man in the crystal
Aleam: “....Sorry”
Lucifer: “Anyways, like I was saying, this dungeon isn’t as simple as you might think. It’s a dual layered dimensional dungeon. The reason you're here is probably because you share similar genetics to my own; that being said the dungeon responds to the strength of the one challenging it, and not in a fair way I might add. As the person challenging enters the dungeon will create the necessary adversaries to keep people away. Most dungeons have similar mechanism to this one.”
I raised my hand to the man trapped in the crystal honestly I didn’t want to be yelled at again.
Aleam: “Excuse me, what is a dual layered dimensional dungeon?”
Lucifer: “Ah you don’t know, I guess there’s no helping it; a dual layered dimensional dungeon or DLD, is exactly as it sounds like. a dungeon with two different dungeons inside it. Like I explained before a regular dungeon has a sort of “WILL” or sort of its own; creating an expected difficulty for its challengers. However, unlike a regular dungeon which is created to keep people out, this one is used to do both keep intruders out and contain something else that being me trapped inside. To be a little more precise the dungeon keeps me here and in order to free me you have to go through the dungeon the normal way and then fight your way to free me and then we would have to fight our way out. To conclude, a DLD is a two for the price of one dungeon with an impossible difficulty level.”
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Aleam: “So how exactly did I get to here?”
Lucifer: “Like I said before the dungeon probably mistook you for me and sent you to this room but since you are not me or because you have different genetic coding you aren’t being subjected to the bio crystallization.”
Aleam: “Bio-”
Lucifer: “What’s my body in.”
Aleam: “Oh right, sorry. Then I’m trapped here forever with a guy trapped inside a crystal made by God whoopie”
Lucifer: “Actually you might not be, since you’re not being imprisoned then that means the dungeon still thinks of you as a challenger. At a curiosity what type of monsters did you encounter while on the way here?”
Aleam: “Werebeasts, Half draconians and slimes , slimes.”
I shivered as I recalled the slimes, the tentacles and the slimy liquids *shiver
Lucifer: “HAHAHAHAHAH”
Aleam: “What’s wrong?”
Lucifer: “This is great, this is great, this just might work, hey kid put your hand on the crystal”
Aleam: “What do you-”
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Lucifer: “JUST HURRY UP AND DO IT”
Aleam: “Owwowowo, ok”
I stand up quickly and approach the crystal which was holding Lucifers body.
Aleam: “I just need to put my hand on it right?”
Lucifer: “YES, JUST DO IT ALL READY”
I touched the crystal and it started to let out a faint glow. I started to feel weaker and weaker, like something was being sucked out of me. After about a minute a single crack formed on the large crystal. I could feel my consciousness starting to fade the more cracks appeared on the crystal. Suddenly, there was a blinding light and I closed my eyes all I could hear was large breaking sound and then a clink.
When I opened my eyes I could see large chunks of crystal strawn across the floor. I looked back at Lucifers body and crystal was already starting to reform encasing his body in crystal once again.
Lucifer: “What are you doing, fainting on me again.”
Aleam: “Thats besides the point you just tried to free yourself right? but sorry I couldn’t help you. Look the crystal is already starting to form around you body-”
Lucifer: “Who cares look down”
I looked down to see a black spiked ball with a white halo formed above it.
Lucifer: “Pick that up.”
Not wanting to be yelled at again I reached out to grab the black spiked ball. As soon as I touched it, the ball started to meld into my skin. I wanted to yell, I tried to throw the ball away but the black thing kept getting absorbed into my skin. My whole arm was burning like the black shadow was burning all the nerves it went pass on my arm. The black shadow kept getting closeer to my head enveloping my body in the process. I tried to let out a scream but before my scream could even make it pass my throat everything turned to black.
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Meanwhile...
Head butler: “Marquise I have brought you the guest’s luggage”
Marquise Andromalius: “Ho, there better be something valuable or else just throw it away.”
Head Butler: “ Yes Sir, It has come to my attention that this was in our guest’s belongings”.
The head butler pulled a note out of the and handed it to the Marquise.
The Marquise looked at the letter lucidly and skinted at the seal on the envelope. he finally took a letter opener and opened the letter and started to read the content within.
Marquise Andromalius: “Ohh no! NONOONNONONONONON; SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT.ARGGGGGGGG.”
Head Butler: “Sir, May I enquire about the content of the letter? You seem riedle up.”
Marquise: “We might have, I might have made a mistake.”
Head Butler: “How so my lord?”
Marquise: “It’s a letter from Layla and the seal seems to be real, the letter seems so be sealed by her particular skill. I’m going to die”
Head Butler: “How unfortunate my lord. You will, how might I put this gently, receive an asswhooping from the madam.”
Marquise: “We need to create a search party get the legion get everybody, we need to get his highness out before anyone finds out, my head will be on a platter.”
Head Butler: “Sir, that might be a problem the entrance to the dungeon has collapsed.”
Marquise: “Sebastian this is no time to joke”
Head Butler: “Sir, I am not joking abou-”
Marquise: “Sebastian I said this is no time to joke”
Head Butler: “Sir, I am not joking”
The Marquise stood up and walked to the corner of the room, he sat down and curled himself into foetal position and started to mutter something.
The Head butler got closer to try and hear what his master was saying.
Marquise: “Hickory, dickory, dock.
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down,
Hickory, dickory, dock.”
To be continued...
Chapter 5